A PIL has been filed by the Masoom Bachpan Foundation in the Allahabad High Court against the ‘health hazards’ faced by children, caused through online classes and prolonged exposure to laptop/ computer/ mobile screens.

A Division Bench of the Chief Justice Govind Mathur and Justice Siddhartha Varma has sought the response from the government on plea which asserts that the students up to 8th standard may be promoted to higher class without holding any examination as for such classes even several educationists have suggested for ‘no examination system’. The Court will hear the matter on December 4.